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USN Quarterly Industry Day at Charleston: What you need to know to compete

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Call me lazy, but I really like it when I attend a Government presentation and they include some information on exactly and precisely WHAT upcoming opportunities are available for Industry. Contract type? Of course, Government is required to give Industry a forecast so that Industry can be prepared to respond.

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Have You Ever Had A Complaint/Suggestion About How The Federal Government Buys Technology

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Everyone with any history in or around government has stories they can tell about federal government procurements. Perhaps the first 535 reasons are the 535 voting members of the US Congress that have the funding, oversight and legislative powers for how government works. That is a good thing of course!

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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Tech News Roundup April 20

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Government only as transparent as its technology, advocates say - FCW.com. Technology|FBI Says It Needs Hackers to Keep Up With Tech Companies - New York Times. An engine for Mars: Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for solar electric propulsion. Free webinar series: ‘Agile for the Government Project Manager’.

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27 Jan Webinar With SEI’s Cyber Intelligence Research Consortium: Learn how to have intelligence successes instead of security failures

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The consortium''s membership consists of practitioners and decision makers from multiple sectors, including government, energy, banking, defense contracting, and academia. In this role she focuses on matching state-of-the-art software research with critical government and private sector needs. com/Webcast/Page/139/6916.

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Decentralizing Agendas and Decisions

Phil Windley

Last month was the first in-person CTO Breakfast since early 2020. CTO Breakfast is a monthly gathering of technologists in the Provo-Salt Lake City area that I've convened for almost 20 years. Like IIW, CTO Breakfast has no pre-planned agenda. We have just two rules: (1) no politics and (2) one conversation at a time.